Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what Herodotus an early Greek historian wrote about them

Darius I of Persia, center, and his court, from a vase painted between 340 and 320 B.C.E., on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. Carlo Raso/ Flickr, CC BY-SA – By Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst Published: 2025 Aug …